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The American Methodism Project is a digitized collection of interdisciplinary and historical materials related to American Methodism. The primary goal of this project is to provide both the digital tools and the digitized texts of American Methodism to better understand both Methodism and the United States. Contemporary questions of church and state boundaries, the role of government, moral development, education, leadership, labor, immigration, family, etc. are topics which can benefit from...
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Books contributed by Southern Illinois University Carbondale .
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The Northwestern University Archives, established in 1935, holds material relating to every aspect of Northwestern's history, including non-current official University records, papers of faculty members, and records of student organizations-- as well as publications, photographs, audio-visuals, artifacts, and more. The Archives' holdings are non-circulating, and are open to the public for research and reference. The Transportation Library of Northwestern University contains over 500,000 items,...
Topic: Northwestern University
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The Illinois Documents collection at the Illinois State Library Illinois State Library is a historical representation of state government since Illinois was granted statehood in 1818. The collection covers the entire scope of state government as Illinois evolved into an agrarian and industrial powerhouse. The coal mining industry was a critical part of the state’s economy during the past 100 years and the Illinois Coal Reports (1883-1986) document advances in mining technology, workmen...
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Illinois Institute of Technology is a private, Ph.D.-granting technological university, with programs in engineering, architecture, the sciences, humanities, psychology, business, law, and design. Created in 1940, IIT traces its roots back over a century to the founding of the Armour Institute of Technology (1890) and the Lewis Institute (1895). Materials contributed to the Internet Archive from IIT's archives and historical library collections cover subjects such as engineering theory and...
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The archives of the Louis L. Biro Law Library contain the largest collection of unpublished Illinois Appellate Court Opinions available. John Marshall's collection spans nearly 350 legal-size volumes dating from about 1900 to 1975. The John Marshall Law School
Topic: John Marshall Law School
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This collection showcases heritage and legacy materials drawn from the Special Collections and The Dr. Jo Ann Rayfield University Archives at Milner Library, Illinois State University . Founded in 1857 as a normal university to prepare the state's teachers, ISU consequently has a rich heritage as the state's leader in all facets of teacher education, from classroom instruction to educational administration and national policy setting. Milner Library is an active partner in the teaching,...
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Methodist Annual Conference Journals
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The Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections is home to records, photographs, oral histories, and publications documenting Loyola's one hundred forty year history in Chicago as well as the libraries' rare book collection and other collections. This collection features items focusing on Illinois history and culture.
Topic: Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections
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In cooperation with the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois and with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library , the UIC Library offers a selection of materials with a particular focus on the history of Chicago. Subject matter ranges across topics such as Chicago congregations, schools and schooling, city governance, Chicago in fiction and poetry, biographies of prominent Chicagoans, and more. Many of the volumes are part of the Library's Lawrence J. Gutter...
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Millsaps College is a private, liberal arts college located in Jackson, Mississippi, founded in 1890 and affiliated with the United Methodist Church. This digital collection exhibits the history of the college through student and alumni publications and course catalogs. All material is from the collection of Millsaps-Wilson Library. These works reflect the time of their creation and as such provide historical and cultural information. They may contain content that is no longer representative of...
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These books were contributed by Chicago State University Library .
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Library materials from Lake Forest College's Donnelley and Lee Library , which houses a collection of over a quarter-million volumes, a variety of print, electronic, media, and primary resources, and offers individualized services to support teaching, learning, and research in the liberal arts and sciences. Featured are works from the Library's Special Collections. Its origins in nineteenth-century donations from major Chicago-area private libraries reflect the Collegeâs beginnings and...
Topic: Lake Forest College
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This collection contains items from the IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. Formed in 1900 with the merger of Chicago College of Law and Kent College of Law, IIT Chicago-Kent is an academic institution located in Chicago's West Loop devoted to training students for the practice of law. The College is a vibrant scholarly community that contributes to academic and public policy discourse on a wide range of legal issues. With more than 500,000 volumes, the Library at the IIT Chicago-Kent College of...
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These are books contributed by the Sauk Valley Community College.
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The books in this collection document the life of William Rainey Harper – his ambition to build a great university in the Midwest, his educational background, and his intellectual pursuits – as told by those that knew him. Some of these works are contemporary with Dr. Harper’s death, while others were written by historians looking back on his impact on higher education in America and the development of the University of Chicago. For a biography on the life of Dr. Harper, please visit this...
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These are books contributed by the Western Illinois University Libraries.
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The Hewes Library at Monmouth College is home to the unique materials of the Monmouth College Archives and Special Collections. In these areas the documents and artifacts of Monmouth College's past are kept. The papers of professors, administrators, departments, student groups, and alumni are housed in the Archive, along with theater and theater programs and posters, sports clippings, admissions brochures, catalogs, yearbooks, and student newspapers. Antique fraternity and sorority dance cards...
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Benedictine University Library Archives and Special Collections are home to items relating to the history of Benedictine University, the history of the Lisle, Illinois area, as well as several special collections. Items in the Archive and Special Collections include print media, records, manuscripts, photographs and audio-visual materials. The digital book collection is comprised of popular items within the Archives and Special Collections which assist in documenting the history of Benedictine...
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Operated by the State of Illinois, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum differs from most presidential libraries in that its collecting scope covers all of Illinois history, as well as Abraham Lincoln. Holdings include 275,000 books, 11.3 million items of manuscript materials, more than 99,000 rolls of microfilm, and 480,000 audiovisual items. Collection strengths include Illinois history and politics, labor history, the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln, Native Americans and ethnic...
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The Rock Valley College Publications offer a look at the history and students of RVC. The collection includes all published RVC Yearbooks (1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, and 1973). The Loft and Voices are student publications of creative writing and art. The Rock Valley Family History Collection contains the family histories of students in the History 143 class compiled in 1981. Rock Valley College Library
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National Louis University began as a Training Class for kindergarten teachers established by Elizabeth Harrison in the 1880s. It evolved into an educational institution that initially awarded undergraduate degrees in kindergarten and elementary education (and after 1952 graduate degrees) under a variety of names: Chicago Kindergarten College (1891-1912) National Kindergarten College (1912-1918), National Kindergarten and Elementary College (1918-1930), National College of Education (1930-1990),...
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The Herbert L. Willett Library is a private library primarily for the use of the residents and scholars of Disciples Divinity House. The library houses a collection of historical materials about the Disciples of Christ. Researchers wishing to consult the historical materials in the library may contact the House Librarian Mark Lambert at lambert@uchicago.edu to arrange an appointment.
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Founded in 1907, Olivet Nazarene University is a private, Christian liberal arts university theologically grounded in the Wesleyan tradition. The main campus is located in Bourbonnais, Illinois on 250 acres just 50 miles south of Chicago. There are additional School of Graduate and Continuing Studies locations in Rolling Meadows and Oak Brook, Illinois, and in Hong Kong. About 4,600 students enroll in Associate, Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral degree programs within disciplines such as...
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The Marshall Brooks Library and the Village of Elsah Museum have a unique collection of Illinois Chautauquan history. The library has copies of the Piasa Daily Chautauquan from Friday, July 21, 1897 through Thursday, August 18, 1898. The Village of Elsah Museum has a scrapbook of programs from 1889 ti 1974. In addition, the Piasa Chautauqua Historical Society has contributed their newsletters from September 2003 to Fall 2009.
Topic: principia
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These are books contributed by Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.
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BRADLEY UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Bradley University is an independent, privately endowed, coeducational institution founded in 1897 as Bradley Polytechnic Institute by Lydia Moss Bradley as a memorial to her husband Tobias. Today, with an enrollment of over 6,000, Bradley offers more than 100 undergraduate majors and 14 graduate degrees in over 30 academic areas, including a doctor of physical therapy degree. Although the Bradley University Library primarily serves the needs of the University'...
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Buswell Memorial Library is shared center of intellectual inquiry and discovery for Wheaton College (IL) . Recognizing that all truth and knowledge comes from God, the library seeks to be a place of intellection and creativity and a treasure trove of scholarly resources, both old and new, in print and online. Along with documenting the history of Wheaton College, the Archives and Special Collections of Wheaton College seeks to collect, preserve, and present materials in all formats related to...
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These are items contributed by the A.C. Buehler Library , Elmhurst College.
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North Central College is an independent, comprehensive college of the liberal arts and sciences located in the Historic District of Naperville, Illinois. This digitized collection includes materials from both the North Central College Archives and Oesterle Library*s Special Collections. The North Central College Archives collects, organizes, describes, and preserves materials related to the history of the College and the local area. The Archives supports the College community's need for...
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Items contributed by Knox College.
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The MacMurray College Archives holds the historic and permanent records of the Illinois Woman's College and MacMurray College. The records of the college consist of personal papers of the college presidents; minutes of the board of trustees meetings; student publications; photographs; scrapbooks; a newspaper clipping file and much more. College Greetings was originally published by the alumnae for the jubilee celebration in 1899. It became a quarterly magazine written and published by the...
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The Klinck Memorial Library is home to more than 160,000 books and audio/visual materials, 140 print periodical subscriptions, 480,000 ERIC microfiche documents, and over 80 electronic databases with remote access. A special collection of musical scores, long-playing vinyl albums, and CDs is also available for use by library patrons. Digitized materials include Concordia's yearbooks from 1912 to 2013. The Christopher Resource Center, located in the Christopher Center Building on the west end of...
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The Archives of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) serve to collect and preserve items relating to the history and activities of the Academy. The Archives include materials on the establishment of IMSA, led by Dr. Leon Lederman and then Governor James Thompson, as well as the documents, photographs, publications, artifacts, videos, and DVDs chronicling IMSA’s history. This collection features one publication, the NOVA, which began during the Academy’s first year (1986-1987)...
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This is the collection page for Eastern Illinois University
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The Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Library contains a Special Collections that is especially strong in the areas of history of medicine, medical biography, dermatology, and venereal diseases. Books in the collection date from 1525. The SIU School of Medicine Archives contains print and non-print materials of historic value emanating from the School. Popular items in this collection include curriculum documents and the School's yearbooks. A small number of manuscript materials...
California Digital Library
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1916
1916
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Shellabear, W. G. (William Girdlestone), 1862-1947
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Topic: English language -- Dictionaries Malay
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These items are contributed by Staley Library, Millikin University. Digitized materials from the Millikin University Archives at Staley Library . Millikin University was founded in 1901 by James Millikin as a university that would embrace the "practical" side of learning along with the "literary and classical;" and, while affiliated with the Presbyterian Church, it would not be narrowly "sectarian" and would remain open to all. It opened for classes in September of...
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These are books contributed by the Lewis and Clark Community College library.
Includes list of retiring faculty and student awards
Topic: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Topics: English language -- Dictionaries Xhosa, English language -- Dictionaries Zulu
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Quincy University, founded in 1860, is a Catholic, independent, liberal arts institution of higher learning in the Franciscan tradition. Library materials digitized here are from the university's archives housed in the Brenner Library. Items include yearbooks(1949-2001 when the last edition was published), student newspapers, and photographs.
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Rockford University is a four-year, co-educational institution founded in 1847 offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in traditional liberal arts and professional fields. Originally known as Rockford Female Seminary, the institution changed its name to Rockford College in 1892. Following an unanimous vote by the Board of Trustees, it was announced on October 2, 2012 that Rockford College would change to Rockford University on July 1, 2013. The change more accurately reflects the...
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Dominican University shares in the vision and mission of the Internet Archive and is contributing items from the Rebecca Crown Library, University Archives & Special Collections and the Sr. Mary Nona McGreal Center for Dominican Historical Studies. Digitized materials from the Sr. Mary Nona McGreal Center for Dominican Historical Studies include The Dominican Monastic Search. The Dominican Monastic Search was published by the Conference of the Nuns of the Order of Preachers of the United...
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The South Suburban College Library is proud to share the college's yearbooks with the community. These materials reflect the history, community involvement the progress and the excellent education the college has provided to the residents and non-residents of the area. These documents will be a true nostalgic journey down memory lane for many who have been associated with the college's history.
Description based on: May 10, 11, 12, 1996; title from cover
Topic: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
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The publications contained here are previously published histories of Illinois Wesleyan University. Additional sources may be found through the IWU Historical Research page or by requesting help through the University Archives . The Ames Library faculty and staff are dedicated to serving the scholarly needs of the Illinois Wesleyan University community. Strong print and online collections support and enhance the university curriculum by providing access to resources from around the world to...
No issue published for 1950/1951
Topic: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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“ Lincoln College was established in 1865 to fill the need for an institution of higher learning in central Illinois.” Today, it has two campuses, one in Lincoln, Illinois, and one in Normal, Illinois. It supports Associate and Bachelor Degree programs, both for traditional and non-traditional students. Lincoln College’s mission is to “uniquely empower students to realize their full potential” (Lincoln College). The Lincoln College McKinstry Library , along with the Alumni Office and...
Description based on: May 10, 11, 12, 1996; title from cover
Topic: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
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These are books contributed by the Northern Illinois University library.
Description based on: May 10, 11, 12, 1996; title from cover
Topic: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
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Governors State University Library . houses the University Archives. One of our special collections is The Creative Woman, a quarterly feminist journal produced at Governors State University from 1977-1992. Issues were comprised of articles, poetry, verse, biographical sketches, essays, non-fiction, fiction, book review, photography, and original graphics. The content featured the work of GSU faculty, staff, and others on a wide variety of topics of interest to women. Themed issues included...
Includes list of retiring faculty and student awards
Topic: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
California Digital Library
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1912
1912
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Shellabear, W. G. (William Girdlestone), 1862-1947
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Topic: Malay language -- English
Description based on: May 10, 11, 12, 1996; title from cover
Topic: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Description based on: May 10, 11, 12, 1996; title from cover
Topic: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
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1918
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Sentinel Publishing Co. (Chicago)
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Advertising matter included in paging
Topic: Jews
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History of the Illinois College of Optometry The Illinois College of Optometry has a rich history. It adopted its present name in 1955, even though it has provided ophthalmic education continuously since its beginnings in 1872 as the Chicago College of Ophthalmology and Otology. Founded by Dr. Henry Olin, a noted eye and ear specialist, its goal was to expand the educational level of physicians in these specialized areas. Dr. Olin was later joined by Dr. James Burton McFatrich, a prominent...
No issue published for 1950/1951
Topic: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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1973
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Chicago Transit Authority
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"For employees and retirees."
Topics: Chicago Transit Authority, Urban transportation, Urban transit
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1970
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Whitney, Ellen M; Illinois State Historical Library
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Selections from manuscripts in the Illinois State Historical Library
Topic: Black Hawk War, 1832
California Digital Library
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1907
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Lange, Rudolf, 1850-1933; Noss, Christopher, b. 1869
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Topic: Japanese language -- Grammar
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This collection showcases Northeastern Illinois University yearbooks from 1964 to 1982. Having evolved from a local teachers college to a state university within a short time frame, Northeastern Illinois University went through several institutional name changes as well. The presented yearbooks reflect the evolution of the university, and are an enduring resource for alumni and researchers alike.
Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Topics: uku, ukuti, ukuba, umntu, indlu, indawo, ljooqic, prefix changes, noun referred, prefix varies,...
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=NwkUAAAAYAAJ&oe=UTF-8
No issue published for 1950/1951
Topic: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
California Digital Library
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1896
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Hill, William, 1770-1827; Waller, David James; Pawson, John, 1737-1806
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Topic: Wesleyan Methodist Church
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This is the collection page for the Kankakee Community College Learning Resource Center
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1918
1918
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Illinois bibliography; Genealogy bibliography
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Cover title : Prairie Farmer's reliable directory of farmers and breeders, Will and Southern Cook Counties, Illinois
Description based on: May 10, 11, 12, 1996; title from cover
Topic: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Description based on: May 10, 11, 12, 1996; title from cover
Topic: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
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The Jennie Huizenga Memorial Library offers students an extensive selection of resources for their studies. The library provides a quiet setting for students, faculty and visitors to read, write, and compile research. Reference librarians offer professional help with research needs. Special collections include the College Archives, from which the yearbooks are drawn; and the Van Namen Dutch Heritage Center, which includes records of the culture and institutions of Dutch Heritage in the Chicago...
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1973
1973
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Chicago Transit Authority
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"For employees and retirees."
Topics: Chicago Transit Authority, Urban transportation, Urban transit
Vol. 2 includes biolgraphical sketches
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